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449:, with the aim of offering good literature at affordable prices to working-class children. The magazine displeased the Catholic and conservative circles, who reproached it with an "inflammatory socialist character". Until 1908, van Kol remained associated with the magazine as editor-in-chief. She then published
241:. She did not like her life in the Dutch East Indies, as she regularly noted in her diary: "With my thirst for higher knowledge, I have to teach the alphabet to children. I would like to cry out in despair and bitterness!" In addition to her diary, she wrote regularly. In 1882, she won a competition from
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